Quotes About Art

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Think inside the work - outside the work